75 Years since the Birth of Jadranka Stojakovic
Title:: 75 Years since the Birth of Jadranka Stojakovic
Date of Issue: 14.05.2025.
Author: Danijela Popovic
Type edition: commemorative
Printing techniques: multicolour offset
Sheet: 8+1
Paper: muflep 100g
Printing House: Blicdruk, Sarajevo
Motive: Jadranka Stojakovic
Catalogue no.: 997
Perforation: 13 3/4
Face value: 1.20 BAM
Quantity: 8 000
Jadranka Stojakovic, born in Sarajevo in 1950, was a Yugoslav pop singer-songwriter and author of numerous urban hit songs from the late 1970s and 1980s. She is one of those singers whose name will never be forgotten, supported by her exceptional talent and the hits she left behind. 'Why aren’t you here', 'There is a secret connection', 'We could have it all', are just some of her songs that almost everyone from these speaking areas knows.
She began her career in the late 1960s, in the group "Kombo 6". She first performed as a soloist in 1968 at the "Young People sing to Spring" festival. This was followed by participation in the television show "Na ti", authored by Dusko Trifunovic, and in 1973 she performed at the Youth Festival in Subotica with the song "You don’t know home where he lives" and won first prize. She was involved in sevdalinka arrangements of old city love songs, and in covering songs by Aleksa Santic and Desanka Maksimovic in new musical arrangements. She also created applied music for television (Children's shows of Television Sarajevo), and wrote the opening theme for the 14th Winter Olympic Games held in Sarajevo in 1984. She also sang backing vocals on records by "Index" and the group "Kod" (Cod), as well as in Vajta's song "Lejla", which represented Yugoslavia at the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest. She had a very successful career in Japan, where she found herself at the invitation of a Japanese journalist who heard her performance at the 14th Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
Since 2011, she has lived in Banja Luka, where she was employed as an editor in the music production of Radio and Television of the Republic of Srpska. Due to a serious illness, she passed away in 2016 and was buried in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens at the Banja Luka City Cemetery in Vrbanja.